Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing · California

Scientific Metal Finishing, Inc.

Santa Clara, CA · ~40 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Scientific Metal Finishing, Inc. runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Scientific Metal Finishing, Inc.: 5.8 TCR = 177% of Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Scientific Metal Finishing, Inc. safety composite

Scientific Metal Finishing, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Scientific Metal Finishing, Inc.: 0.0 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2023

Scientific Metal Finishing, Inc.'s TCR rose 7.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 7.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Santa Clara, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 177% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #28/29
  • PHOTO TMS Manufacturing Co.
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TMS Manufacturing Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Scientific Metal Finishing, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Scientific Metal Finishing, Inc. averages 5.8 TCR (177% of the Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Scientific Metal Finishing, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=11.3 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=8.9 · 2021=7.9 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=7.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Scientific Metal Finishing, Inc. falls in its industry

530 Industrial product finishes an establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 29 Industrial product finishes an employers in California.

Scientific Metal Finishing, Inc. (40 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Scientific Metal Finishing, Inc.
Scientific Metal Finishing, Inc. (40 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Scientific Metal Finishing, Inc. has fewer employees than the Industrial product finishes and coatings median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 7.9 5.3 3 0 0
2022 8.3 4.1 4 0 0
2021 7.9 5.3 3 0 0
2020 8.9 5.9 2 1 0
2019 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 11.3 4.5 5 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · CA · Santa Clara

530 Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 332 employers in Santa Clara, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR TMS Manufacturing Co. 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR USA NC Sanford Plant 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alpha Coatings Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pioneer Powder Coatings LLC 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stackhouse Brothers 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE PISTACHIO HARVESTING, INC. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Watsonville/San Juan Bautista 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gomez Growers 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Campus 6,222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pure Storage 5,595 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02120751 3,887 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0206-02620751 3,154 FTE
NAT-TCR Mobile Power Generators, LLC dba Power Technology Southeast 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Seattle Sounders FC 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR North America : North Springfield 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Food City 162 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dri-View Manufacturing Co Inc 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charles Messina Plumbing & Electric Co 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wapello Specialty Care 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE R+L Carriers - DCA 40 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.